Theory: reblogging/retweeting is killing the internet. (Please retweet this and discuss.)I thought reblogging would be the downfall of All That is Holy when Tumblr first launched it. (That’s right, kids. Back in my day, there was no reblogging on Tumblr and we had to walk to the Radar uphill in the snow, both ways.)
In fact, two days after Tumblr launched this new and mysterious “reblogging” thing, I wrote a post which included phrases like “[Reblogging will] turn this medium into an orgy of content appropriation.” On April 29, 2007, Marco reblogged it to add a very thoughtful and informative response. From then on, I got it.
As for retweeting, I don’t particularly get it. Maybe I need somebody to retweet me and explain that to me as well. Although you will have to be very succinct to be successful.
Or put another way: November 1993. NCSA Mosaic 1.0 is released. Images killed the internet as we knew it. Thank fucking god.
Reblogging is so successful (in my eyes at least) because it references properly. Yes, we know that that isn’t your original content. But at least we know who you stole it from. And who they got it from. And so on, and so on, and so on…
Oh, you reblog x quite a lot. I may have to check them out (I have thought on many an occassion). In my opinion, it opens the whole social side of tumblr right up. Though topherchris’ point is more than valid and correct.
